Peter McNeil

Denise Amy Baxter

Mary Harlow

Alexandra Palmer

Susan J. Vincent

Elizabeth Currie

Sarah-Grace Heller

A cultural history of dress and fashion' presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2,500 years of dress and fashion. Volume 1: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD), edited by Mary Harlow; Volume 2: The Medieval Age (800-1450), edited by Sarah-Grace Heller; Volume 3: The Renaissance (1450-1650), edited by Elizabeth Currie; Volume 4: The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800), edited by Peter McNeil; Volume 5: The Age of Empire (1800-1920), edited by Denise Amy Baxter; Volume 6: The Modern Age (1920-2000+), edited by Alexandra Palmer. Each volume discusses the same key themes in its chapters: 1. Textiles 2. Production and Distribution 3. The Body 4. Belief 5. Gender and Sexuality 6. Status 7. Ethnicity 8. Visual Representations 9. Literary Representations. This structure means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on dress and fashion through history.

A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance

The Truth About Love is an original philosophical theory which presents a comprehensive, holistic model of the normal human psyche. The purpose of the book is to reveal, to the average person, their own nature. The Truth About Love is written in question and answer form, which gives the advantage of allowing the reader to focus quickly on questions of personal interest, and to reflect on each issue before moving on to a new concept. The first section, Love-The Key, comprises the central theory which explains the phenomenon of love. You learn how love transcends its reputation as a romantic attachment to another person, and gives you a basic premise for understanding most aspects of human nature. The second section, Emotion and Feeling , gives a complete explanation of emotion and, for the first time, an explanation of feeling, apart from emotion. This new knowledge is used to examine old philosophical questions about human nature such as altruism, creativity, and happiness. The third section, Motivation, relates the central theory to your everyday life, giving structure and meaning to your thoughts and actions in a simple and concise way. Also in this section, is perhaps the most important application of the concepts of love, emotion, and feeling, in an explanation of self-love. In conclusion, you will discover how self-love leads to optimum mental health and how this affects other areas of your life. The Truth About Love provides answers that you cannot find in textbooks but that you ask yourself everyday. They are simple questions, and simple answers, that will change your life.

Elizabeth Currie

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